Author

Iamblichus(c. 245–c. 325 CE)Inferred

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

This author survives here only through the 1852 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled after her death by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.

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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with Iamblichus

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

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This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.

1852—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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“it is only to those perfected in purity that Pythagoras can show a golden thigh.”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.

Inferred Margaret Fuller references the obscure legend of Pythagoras's "golden thigh," a symbol of esoteric wisdom accessible only to the spiritually pure.